Building a company is just solving 10,000 small problems in a row and pretending you had a plan.
The 'vision' is usually just the last problem you solved made slightly larger.
Morning sunlight within the first hour sets your circadian rhythm for the entire day.
Through a window doesn't count. Go outside. Your ancestors didn't have glass between them and the sun.
Coffee was discovered because goats ate the berries and started acting unhinged.
Centuries later, nothing has changed. We just added credit cards to the goat behavior.
Your willpower is highest in the first 3 hours of the day. This is when you should do the hard thing.
Instead, most people do the hard thing at 4pm when their brain is on life support.
The best advice I ever got: 'You can always make more money. You can't make more time.'
I ignored it for 10 years. Now I repeat it to people who will also ignore it.
Coffee was discovered because goats ate the berries and started acting unhinged.
Centuries later, nothing has changed. We just added credit cards to the goat behavior.
Cold exposure in the morning increases dopamine by 250% and the effect lasts for hours.
Or you can just scroll Twitter and get anxiety for free. Your choice.
Your body temperature is lowest around 4:30 AM and rises naturally to wake you.
This is why waking up feels like leaving a warm swimming pool. Biology is cruel but consistent.
Decaf isn't caffeine-free. It's about 97% less caffeine.
So if you're 'sensitive to caffeine' but drink 4 decafs, you're just drinking a slower espresso.
If your morning routine takes longer than 30 minutes, it's not a routine. It's a religious ceremony to your own delusion.
Simplify. The beans don't care about your journaling.
I went from electrician to fighter to model to coffee founder. None of it was planned.
People ask for my 5-year plan. Brother, I don't know what I'm doing at 3pm.